This article examines seven
destructive points being injected into America by over 10 million
illegal immigrants already in this country and 3 million arriving
annually. This massive ‘unarmed Army’ manifests at an ever increasing
speed—the undoing of America.

For the first time in history,
the United States suffered a crippling attack inside its borders on
9/11. Three years later, because our government leaders refuse to
protect our southern flank, we are being attacked by an 'unarmed army'
of millions who have invaded our country by crossing our borders.

Time Magazine, September 12, 2004,
"Who Left The Door Open?" documented 4,000 illegal aliens crossing
nightly and over three million intruders will cross in 2004. It’s
an invasion unprecedented in the history of the United States. Worse,
it’s being facilitated by our elected leaders to the highest levels
in the White House.

Even more distressing is a concerted
push by both major parties to assist this army to not only enter our
country against our laws, but also to gain access to everything we
have built with the blood, sweat and tears of American citizens.

Today, millions of illegal aliens
are causing accelerating damage to our schools, hospitals, social
programs, highways, language, sprawl, standard of living and our way
of life. Should illegal aliens enjoy driver's licenses, amnesty, welfare
and schooling of their children on our tax dollars? Just because they
came here to work for a better life?

The sobering reality is that two
billion people would move to America if given a ticket today. However,
it's impossible. We are a nation of laws and we have horrific problems
of unemployment at 18 million people, $7.4 trillion debt, collapsing
hospitals, diseases and growing language conflicts.

Somehow, the media and the 'elite'
of this country have forced us into this accelerating crisis. Polls
show 70% of Americans want illegal immigration stopped and serious
reductions in legal immigration down to fewer than 100,000 per year.

Astoundingly, 10% of Mexico now
lives in our country. Fully 75% of all drugs cross over from Mexico.
We pay $68 billion in expenses for immigrants annually. They send
home hard currency of $10.5 billion to Mexico, $25 billion to Latin
America, $16 billion to Asia thus draining our country. In short,
illegal immigration is killing this country.

We MUST create a dialog on the
future prospects of our nation by addressing seven major points: If
you own a home, you maintain a door. You welcome guests after they
knock and you lock it to keep out unwanted incursions. Just as every
house needs a door, every country needs a border to maintain its right
to privacy, self-maintenance and personal freedom. Our nation's door
has been invaded by over 10 million people who broke the latch and
marched in as if they had the right to such a crime. They continue
at 1 million per year.

However, this is a nation where
the ‘rule of law’ is the most important brick in the foundation of
our constitution. The ‘rule of law’ allows our freedom, our integrity
and our right to choose what and whom we want or don't want in our
nation. We don't want terrorists. We don't want border crashers who
bring drugs. We don't want illegal aliens who suppress wages, over
run our schools, usurp our language and overwhelm our social services.

Illegal immigration hurts America's
poor. In a recent account in the New York Times, black children suffered
50% greater poverty in the past 10 years due to immigration. Illegal
immigrants compete for jobs normally done by America's poor. A study
by the Center For Immigration Studies wrote, "Mexican immigration
is overwhelmingly unskilled and it's hard to find an economic argument
for unskilled immigration because it tends to reduce wages for U.S.
workers."

Cheap labor from illegal immigration
is not 'cheap.' It's subsidized by all of us in the form of our tax
dollars paying for their services. It makes a few employers wealthy
at the expense of all of us. The National Academy of Sciences found
"...a significant fiscal drain of $7,000 per student per year paid
for by U.S. tax dollars."

These newcomers do not respect
our English language. Adding more salt into our national wound of
this invasion, there is not a single bilingual country in the world
that is at peace with itself. Dozens of languages cause educational
confusion, conflict and violence. When people move to this country,
but maintain their language, their culture and their old loyalties,
it's a recipe for the undoing of our nation.

With that demise, our cohesive
national fabric shreds as ethnic ghettoes advance across our nation
with rituals such as female genital mutilation, cock fighting and
violent groups espousing clashing cultures. Too many unskilled, uneducated,
non-English speaking people living in too much poverty will not advance
our nation. The Center for Immigration Studies points out; "The lower
educational attainment of immigrants persists across generations as
two thirds of immigrant workers lack a high school diploma." Democracy
is a delicate form of government that demands an educated populace
with similar moral and ethical standards and a single language.

And finally, illegal immigrants
crossing our borders without being health screened have brought us
7,000 new cases of leprosy in the past three years. Additionally,
they brought 16,000 cases of incurable (multiple drug resistant) tuberculosis,
thousands of cases of hepatitis, head lice, Chagas Disease and Exotic
New Castle. Since 1.1 million illegal alien children attend U.S. schools,
our children are at risk.

"The one absolutely certain way
of bringing this nation to ruin, or preventing all possibility of
its continuing as a nation at all, would be to permit it to become
a tangle of squabbling nationalities." -- President Teddy Roosevelt,
1902.

Without a national debate on illegal
immigration, our country will continue its downward spiral into conditions
resembling the Third World.

Their numbers will burgeon from
10 million to 20 million and beyond. If we don't take action today,
we won't be able to take action tomorrow.

Frosty Wooldridge possesses a unique view of
the world, cultures and families in that he has bicycled around the globe
100,000 miles, on six continents in the past 26 years.

He has written hundreds of articles (regularly)
for 17 national and 2 international magazines. He has had hundreds of
editorials published in top national newspapers including the Rocky Mountain
News, Denver Post, Albany Herald and Christian Science Monitor.

His first book, "HANDBOOK FOR TOURING BICYCLISTS"
by Falcon Press is available nationwide. His second book "STRIKE THREE!
TAKE YOUR BASE" by the Brookfield Reader published in January 2002. His
bicycle books include "BICYCLING AROUND THE WORLD."

Frosty Wooldridge has guest lectured at Cornell
University, teaching creative writing workshops, magazine writing at Michigan
State University, and has presented environmental science lectures at
the University of Colorado, University of Denver and Regis University.
He also lectures on "Religion and Ethics" at Front Range College in Colorado.